I agree with both Tom and lightraven24, in that adding in packages that are not asked for becomes overkill when your "container" is effectively an amazon instance. Having the ability to create a truely "minimal" build of ubuntu in order to run on a cloud service provider is important to reduce possible attack vectors by having in additional software you never asked for in the first place. I think a menu option for "container services" that installs all necessary lxd related dependencies would be ideal so at least the user could choose if they want to include that. Asking users to specifically go and uninstall a bunch of services after deploy seems like a poor user experience.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1563026 Title: LXC/LXD installed by default on Ubuntu server Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: When performing a new installation of Ubuntu server 16.04 Beta 2, LXC and LXD are included in the default packages even when "Virtual Server" is not selected as an installation task. This brings in all of the required dependencies as well, obviously, which seems like it is not the best default behavior to have. When installing from a non-UEFI boot, the user may select "minimal install" from the "F4" menu. This menu is not available from the UEFI grub environment, making it apparently impossible to select an installation that does not include the LXC and LXD suite by default. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1563026/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
